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Ibs Space planning - explore new customer's shopping experience
Retailers have done tremendous efforts to transform stores into an attractive shopping place to satisfy shoppers and keep them loyal. A new concept seduces more and more retailers with the deployment of the in-store shopping experience. Indeed, the management of stores by consumption universes has become a priority for all retailers (universe of perfume, bio, person, leisure …)

A strong response to new customer's shopping experience is the key for successful store plan building: senses mobilization, atmosphere, intuitive organization, clear in-store signals… The implementation of this method corresponds to a combination of optimized store plans and planogram from upstream analysis.
     
"Shoppers looking for a global answer to fulfill their expectations of present"

Ibs Space Planning allows finalizing your commercial in-store strategy. Have the consumer experience the products by offering a nice and relaxing in-store atmosphere with clear and marketing oriented layouts.

How to make your stores more attractive to reinforce shopper's loyalty and attract new shoppers?
  • Make the visit in stores a pleasure moment and not as unbearable waste of time. Shopping should be a pleasant and distracting activity where buying becomes a joyful act. Consumer should have the impression that retailers care about their needs and expectations...

  • Develop your store plan based on your strategy while respecting retailer's image. Your store management will reflect your image and distinguish the company from other competitors: aisles space, on-site adds and signals, height of your shelves…

  • Take advantage of our solutions to increase the time consumed in- store and to boost the value of the average' shopping basket: customer flow studies; attractive shelves building; implementation definition (For example, choose to advantage your private brand, to purge your layout, to define strategic position of categories)…

  • Prepare your shelves' segmentation and organization to facilitate the buying decision and to make consumers move easily in stores. ibs Space planning allows creating your own segmentation at any level of nomenclature while respecting the logic of category implementation.

"How to highlight all the upstream work to consumers?"

Benefits of our solution Ibs Space Planning

After selecting the optimal assortment for each store or group of stores in ibs Assortment, you need to place the product at the right place in stores. Customers should have easy access to products and you have to make sure that there are enough products on the shelf to reduce out-of-stock risks..

Ibs Space Planning perfectly covers retailers' needs in terms of space management and offers them best solutions to fulfill the entire process:
  • Take advantage of our existing reports allowing an accurate market analysis and internal analysis. Our multi-dimension analysis tools help you to identify emerging and prevailing trends that will boost your market share.
  • Work with pleasant solutions developed by our laboratory to make the store plan creation an enriched experience that can reflect your company image.

  • Take up the challenge of store plan remodeling with our graphical solutions for store plans and planograms building (2D or 3D view). Define the best in-store presentation according to your strategy to generate traffic (configuration merchandising rules and parameters).

  • Increase your revenue and inventory productivity by reducing over stock and out of stock risks and maximize your returns on both inventory and shelf space investments.

  • Enlarge the level of collaboration and communication between merchandises planners and stores: analyses of store feedback, sending recommendations from headquarters, automatee and control the implementation of the merchandising policy…

  • Automatee store plan and planogram building based on your merchandising and items rules. Draw your inspiration from our best practices of visual merchandising and presentation display to create / update successfully your store plans and planograms.

  • Optimize the space for all kind of formats with the reconciliation between assortments lists and available space to manage wasted space.

Best practices implementation for a quality space management
Ibs Space Planning optimizes the balance between global retailer's image, merchandising rules and customer behavior to make the shopping experience more attractive and enjoyable for customer, consequently retailers achieve higher sales results.